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I'm willing to bet if you did, you wouldn't know. It's not something anyone is going to brag about. Similar to kids getting free school meals or any other 'benefit' for being poor. When you have these problems you tend to keep them to yourself due to shame.

Also, from the article:

"But, he says, one-third of young people do not have any internet access and many more lack the quality of connection needed to work or learn from home."

I dunno, I had a lot of friends from poorer families. Their computers were shared and usually not the best, but I never saw anyone without any access at all.

Group projects were regularly done remotely on Skype after school to do homework (admittedly to my chagrin as I didn't have a Windows machine to run Office).

Is there more reliable data on this?

Did you grow up in a rural or urban area ? I mean if there are people queueing for food there must be people too poor to even own an extra laptop

Yes, you're out of touch. Access to the internet is seen as a luxury when you're relying on charitable donations to put food on the table.